Awesome news to hear that this will be on PBS in April!

CBS also made a drama order from Greg Berlanti (“Brothers & Sisters”) and Warner Bros. Television.

For CBS, Berlanti and Nicholas Wootton are producing “Golden Boy,” which tracks one cop’s meteoric rise from officer to detective to police commissioner. Last week, Berlanti scored a pilot order from the CW for a drama based on the superhero Green Arrow.

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After announcing last week that a pilot has been ordered for the Green Arrow TV show, Arrow, it appears that the CW is attempting to purge any remaining expectations of machismo programming by announcing today that they have greenlighted pilots for the long-awaited Sex and the City prequel Carrie Diaries, as well as a remake of the 1980s Beauty and the Beast series, Beast.

Spearheaded by Brothers & Sisters producers Jennifer Levin and Sherri Cooper, Beast will also bring on original Beauty and the Beast series creator Ron Koslow, as well as original series producers Paul Junger Witt and C. Anthony Thomas.

Without knowing more about the intended direction of the series, it’s difficult to gauge exactly how excited and/or put off one should be with this news. Perhaps taking a note from recent film trends, it appears that CW is attempting to hedge its bets on a successful fall line-up by developing series based on already-proven franchises.